Re: [vps-mail] clamav quarantine question

["Dale Britt" <dbritt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott

What virus scanning engine is being used for the clamav

Is this an automatic download of new virus signatures / patches?

Thanks
Dale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Wiersdorf" <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:07 AM
Subject: [vps-mail] clamav quarantine question


> Friends,
>
> Our mutual friend, Art Zemon, sent the following question to me:
>
>     Indeed, ClamAV is doing it's thing. It nicely dumps stuff into
>     $HOME/quarantine but does not modify .mailboxlist. You might want
>     to add something to the vinstall "docs" about it.
>
> The .mailboxlist file Art is talking about is what IMAP clients use
> to tell which files should be used as mailboxes. By adding
> 'quarantine' to the .mailboxlist file, users will be able to check
> their mail and see a new 'quarantine' file full of worms/email
> viruses.
>
> My question to this list is, How do you want this implemented?
>
>   1) have the vinstall automatically create/modify .mailboxlist and add
>      'quarantine'
>   2) mention the file in the vinstall but do nothing automatically
>      (Art's recommendation)
>   3) leave things the way they are
>   4) some other suggestion...
>
> By automatically adding 'quarantine' to .mailboxlist, my fear would
> be that when a user opens their IMAP client, this new 'quarantine'
> mailbox appears and they may say "Hey, what's this? Wow, look at all
> these emails I've missed!" and then proceeds to infect his/her
> computer with all current worms. What are your thots?
>
> Scott
> -- 
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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